Trump just signed executive order to use military on cartels

[Persuader]

Long overdue...........this is just the beginning of the beginning.....these drug cartels must be wiped from the face of the Earth.

They are definitely a National Security Threat.

President Trump ‘Secretly’ Signs Directive Ordering Pentagon to Begin Unleashing MILITARY FORCE Against Foreign Drug Cartels: Report​

 

[1srelluc]

Thread 'Trump just signed executive order to use military on cartels'

Aug 8, 2025

REPORT: Trump Signs Order to Use Military Force Against Certain Drug Cartels

A report in the New York Times states that President Donald Trump secretly signed an order authorizing the use of military force against "certain Latin | Border / Cartel Chronicles

www.breitbart.com

Could use drones to target manufacturing sites and drug leaders

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[Twisted Gypsy Child]

Long overdue...........this is just the beginning of the beginning.....these drug cartels must be wiped from the face of the Earth.

They are definitely a National Security Threat.

President Trump ‘Secretly’ Signs Directive Ordering Pentagon to Begin Unleashing MILITARY FORCE Against Foreign Drug Cartels: Report​

no longer a secret

 

[TimFitz]

He lives in a television world.

 

[Crepitus]

Long overdue...........this is just the beginning of the beginning.....these drug cartels must be wiped from the face of the Earth.

They are definitely a National Security Threat.

President Trump ‘Secretly’ Signs Directive Ordering Pentagon to Begin Unleashing MILITARY FORCE Against Foreign Drug Cartels: Report​

Starting another war.

 

[kyzr]

Trump supposedly signed a not so secret EO authorizing the military to plan attacks to disrupt the international drug cartels' activities.

Secret Trump order authorizes military strikes on drug cartels: report

Order raises possibility of "direct military operations at sea and on foreign soil against cartels,” NYT reports

www.yahoo.com

I approve.

 

[kyzr]

I know one good improvement.

Years ago military radar operators could not tell DEA or local police where the drug planes were landing.

Maybe satellites could be used to advantage as well for targeting drug facilities?

 

[Zincwarrior]

Didn't we have three movies like that? Didn't turn out well.

 

[yidnar]

Starting another war.

Trump has already ended several wars....the Cartels started the warthe US by sending a deadly poison "fentanyl" across our border thats killed hundreds of thousands of American citizens and kills on average 22 children a week in the US .we are now finally going to fight back ..

 

[SassyIrishLass]

the Cartels started the war by importing a deadly poison "fentanyl" across our border that killed hundreds of thousands of American citizens and kills on average 22 children a week in the US .

One has to be insane to not agree with going after drug cartels...or in the case of this thread have extreme TDS

 

[Doc7505]

the Cartels started the war by importing a deadly poison "fentanyl" across our border that killed hundreds of thousands of American citizens and kills on average 22 children a week in the US .we are now finally going to fight back .. and Trump has already ended several wars ..

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Actually it goes further than just Fentanyl, the Narco Cartels have been shipping, Heroin, Cocaine, Methamphetamine and other illegal drugs into the U.S. for decades.
Cocaine may have been the primary narcotic coming from Columbia at one time and much of it was trans-shipped to Mexico for smuggling into the U.S....

 

[yidnar]

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Actually it goes further than just Fentanyl, the Narco Cartels have been shipping, Heroin, Cocaine, Methamphetamine and other illegal drugs into the U.S. for decades.
Cocaine may have been the primary narcotic coming from Columbia at one time and much of it was trans-shipped to Mexico for smuggling into the U.S....

true .. but I don't consider fentanyl a drug .. its poison .. deadly poison .

 

[Captain Caveman]

If they go after organized crime, whites are going to get locked up.

To update your knowledge -

Assessing the Race–Crime and Ethnicity–Crime Relationship in a Sample of Serious Adolescent Delinquents - PMC

Official record studies consistently show that Blacks exhibit higher levels of involvement in criminal offending than Whites do. Although self-report studies suggest somewhat lower levels of Black overrepresentation in criminal offending activity ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

 

[Doc7505]

No boots on the Ground , Drone warfare .

Hire Mexicans to kill Mexican Narco terrorists in Mexico....

 

[TimFitz]

Trump has already ended several wars....the Cartels started the warthe US by sending a deadly poison "fentanyl" across our border thats killed hundreds of thousands of American citizens and kills on average 22 children a week in the US .we are now finally going to fight back ..

As long as there is a market, someone will supply it.

Trump has never ended a war.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

As long as there is a market, someone will supply it.

Trump has never ended a war.

Like slavery!

 

[DonGlock26]

I can see it now.....A cartel boss and his midget minion standing there and the midget looking up and saying. "Look Boss, de drone, de drone".....KABOOM!

 

[Crepitus]

Trump has already ended several wars....the Cartels started the warthe US by sending a deadly poison "fentanyl" across our border thats killed hundreds of thousands of American citizens and kills on average 22 children a week in the US .we are now finally going to fight back ..

LMAO @ "ended several wars".

 

[Doc7505]

As long as there is a market, someone will supply it.

Trump has never ended a war.

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Indeed, up to now he stopped it before it became a war, India & Pakistan, Thailand & Cambodia,

 

[Doc7505]

Mexico has never been a friend of America.

• The relationship between Mexico and the United States has been complex, marked by significant conflicts.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/01/19/mexico_is_not_really_an_american_friend_148750.html